6,265 returnee children, including 262 unaccompanied children received support during their journey from W Nile state to the south. Such support also covered 1077 unaccompanied women. There was close watch to child protection issues. A committee made up of the NCCW and partners was formed to deal with IDP children during voluntary return journeys. A training package was designed for 30 cadres including officials and child protection groups’ members and IOM observers. Children in Armed Conflicts and Arrangements for Care and Protection: During peace talks in Kenya a DDR commission was established by a presidential Decree in 2003. The child soldier was one of the most important portfolios of the talks. After the signature of the CPA in 2005 another Presidential Decree was issued in 2006 re-forming the DDR commission and attaching it to the Presidency of the Republic. National DDR Commissions were formed by the Government of National Unity and the Government of Southern Sudan. DDR Program targets: I. Child soldiers and children associated with armed groups II. Children subjected to the danger of conscription (IDP/Refugee children and homeless children). Objectives of the program are:  Demobilization of children from armed forces and groups  Reuniting such children with their families and communities  Prohibition of conscription or re-conscription of children  Reintegration of such children, socially and economically, into their communities  The Program considers the Paris Principles and IDDRS basic technical references for the implementation of its activities. All peace agreements, including the CPA, 2005, the DPA, 2006 and the East Peace Agreement, 2006 provided for the demobilization of any person below 18 in the groups signing agreements with the government with commitment to not re-conscript any demobilized children. There was another commitment on the part of the rebel groups signing agreements with the government to enable stakeholders to reunite these children with their respective families and communities. A training program has been designed to enable teams from state social affairs ministries, social workers, officials of the ministries of education and health and other partners from the ministry of the interior, (COR) and CSOs engaged in emergency work in Khartoum and other states. Database, training manuals, social work forms and follow up reports’ format have been prepared. Technical teams of social workers have been formed. Child soldier numbers were 41 in Red Sea, 243 in Kassala, 33 in Gadaref, 31 in Khartoum, 99 in Blue Nile, 256 in Southern Kordufan, 535 in Southern Darfur, 186 in Northern Darfur and 304 in Western Darfur. 52